A beautiful, manipulative widow schemes to find a wealthy husband for her daughter and herself, leaving a trail of devastation in her wake.

 

The novel is written in the eighteenth-century epistolary style (a literary work in the form of written correspondence) and tells the story of recently widowed, Lady Susan, an attractive and intelligent but exceedingly artful woman, intent on gaining financially beneficial relationships for herself and her daughter, Frederica. 

 

Lady Susan was the first novel to be completed by Jane Austen, however it was not published until long after her death in 1871.  It is an eye-opening account of subterfuge and underhandedness.

 

This unique edition includes a comprehensive glossary of words and terms in use in Georgian England to enable the reader, or student, achieve greater understanding.

 

If you loved Pride and Prejudice, this will open up the opposite perspective.  Click on the cover to buy Lady Susan today.